Setup Prop: Change percent to underscore

Max Bowsher maxb@ukf.net
Sat Jan 4 23:37:00 GMT 2003


Robert Collins wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 10:09, M. Evans wrote:
>> The percent (%) character in the setup.exe download file paths is a
>> problem for many Windows file managers.  These include "Directory
>> Toolkit" and "2xExplorer."
>>
>> The proposal is to change setup.exe to use underscores or some
>> similarly innocuous character instead of percent signs.
>
> Nope. It's
> a) perfectly valid win32 naming.
> b) An application of the internet standard for url escaping.

Yep. Why not contact the authors of the programs you mention and get them to
fix their bugs.

Max.



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